Performances

Creative Manchester presents Music on Campus

12:15 11 February - 13:30 24 March 2020
Creative Manchester presents Music on Campus Drop by to enhance your wellbeing with some live music Listening to music reduces stress and can have a relaxing effect on our mind and…

MUMS Opera – The Enchanted Pig

19:00 - 21:30 22 February 2020
The MUMS Opera team return this year to put on Jonathan Dove’s eccentric The Enchanted Pig, an opera exploring a magical and enchanting story of love and destiny, by one of the most…

Event Cancelled Literature Live: Jean McNeil and Rachael Allen

19:30 - 20:45 24 February 2020
Due to industrial action by the University and College Union (UCU) this event is now cancelled. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. If you have bought tickets for this event…

WCLC: Gazelleband

13:10 - 14:00 27 February 2020
Gazelleband combines pioneering Palestinian oud player Reem Anbar and Mancunian multi-instrumentalist Louis Brehony, as they present a unique take on the radical and traditional music…

MUMS Chamber Music from the Nineteenth Century

13:10 - 14:00 28 February 2020
Join talented chamber musicians in the music society as they take on a programme of nineteenth century works. This free concert explores three works by Johannes Brahms, Clara and Robert…

MANTIS FESTIVAL: Digital Overlays

18:00 - 19:30 29 February 2020
Come along to the 2020 spring edition of the MANTIS festival ‘Digital Overlays’. Immersive media environments and human-machine Interactivity by music composers and digital artists…

MANTIS FESTIVAL: Digital Overlays

20:00 - 21:00 29 February 2020
Come along to the 2020 spring edition of the MANTIS festival ‘Digital Overlays’. Immersive media environments and human-machine Interactivity by music composers and digital artists…

MANTIS FESTIVAL: Digital Overlays

14:00 - 15:00 1 March 2020
Come along to the 2020 spring edition of the MANTIS festival ‘Digital Overlays’. Immersive media environments and human-machine Interactivity by music composers and digital artists…

Black Voices Singing Workshop (part of Musica Festival 2020)

14:30 - 16:00 5 March 2020
We continue our celebration of women in music with an afternoon of songs from black oral music traditions. Explore harmony singing in diverse styles – from traditional African, spirituals…

WCLC: Black Voices Lunchtime Concert (part of the Musica Festival 2020)

13:10 - 14:00 5 March 2020
Come along to the Martin Harris Centre and experience the exceptional sounds of Black Voices - an all-female a cappella collective who are globally celebrated for their stunning voices…

MUMS - Musica Festival

13:10 - 14:00 6 March 2020
Female music-making has been long underappreciated in the Western music world. Join the student-founded Musica group to celebrate women in music. In this concert, they explore female…

The University of Manchester Symphony Orchestra

19:00 - 21:00 7 March 2020
The University of Manchester Symphony Orchestra presents a concert full of the Manchester spirit. Emeritus Professor John Casken’s Maharal Dreaming and a new work by postgraduate student…

CoMA Contemporary Music for all Festival

8 March 2020
CoMAFest: Contemporary Music for All Join players, singers and audience in a day of workshops and rehearsals of exciting new music. These workshops will culminate in an evening concert…

Literature Live: Vahni Capildeo, Anthony Caleshu and Peter Gizzi

18:30 - 19:45 9 March 2020
Please be aware this event will run at 6.30pm in the International Anthony Burgess Foundation and will be hosted by Carcanet. It will mark the launch of Carcanet’s edition of Gizzi’s…

MUMS - Paganini Violin Concerto No. 1

13:10 - 14:00 11 March 2020
MUMS Chamber Orchestra accompanies soloist Sebastian Mueller performing Paganini’s fierce Violin Concerto No. 1, renowned for its extreme demands on the soloist with its fiendishly…

WCLC: Vonnegut Collective: shape & colour

13:10 - 14:00 12 March 2020
Experience superb new works by postgraduate University of Manchester composers, devised and developed with the Vonnegut Collective and visual artist, Hannah Campion. Together, the…

Manchester University Wind Orchestra (MUWO) and String Orchestra (MUSO)

19:00 - 21:00 14 March 2020
Featuring Isla Atay playing Bright Sheng’s Flute Moon, the string orchestra return for their second concert of the year to play Purcell’s famous Abdelazer Suite and Peter Warlock’s…

WCLC: Klezmer: The Michael Kahan Kapelye

13:10 - 14:00 19 March 2020
Experience a compelling concert of klezmer music as the University of Manchester’s resident klezmer ensemble, The Michael Kahan Kapelye, perform traditional dance music of Eastern European…

Manchester University Big Band (MUBB)

19:00 - 21:00 20 March 2020
The University of Manchester Big Band return for another concert of contemporary jazz, presenting a truly unique experience in our concert series. Join us for an exploration of the…

MUMS Baroque - Henry Purcell: Showtunes

13:10 - 14:00 20 March 2020
In the last five years of his short life, Henry Purcell’s career took a (literally) dramatic new turn, as he became the London Theatre’s most prolific and celebrated composer, writing…

The Cosmo Singers and Ad Solem

19:00 - 21:00 21 March 2020
Join The University of Manchester's chamber choirs, Ad Solem and The Cosmo Singers, for an evening of choral bliss. The evening will Include the performance of works by Paul Mealor…

Stockport Youth Orchestra

15:30 - 17:30 22 March 2020
Experience the Stockport Youth Orchestra perform works by Ives, Beethoven and Grieg, spotlighting talented young soloists from within the orchestra. Conducted by Chris Orton and Tim…

Literature Live: Frances Leviston and Kirsty Logan

19:30 - 20:45 23 March 2020
Frances Leviston is the author of two collections of poetry: Public Dream, shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Jerwood-Aldeburgh…

Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert

13:10 - 14:00 26 March 2020
Milhaud Quartet No. 7, in B flat, Op. 87 Prokofiev Quartet No. 1, in B minor, Op. 50 The seventh of Milhaud’s eighteen quartets (he had vowed to surpass Beethoven’s seventeen)…

Fridays for Future: Primary Schools Network Choir

11:45 - 12:15 27 March 2020
Come and join Manchester primary schools singing for the planet at Manchester Museum! Inspired by what they learnt about rainforests in the Museum, the children are singing traditional…

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